The ancient white supremacists have just about got what they need to carry out their insidious plans, but they haven’t banked on Alex Campbell’s tenacity.

Alex is about to go on quite the trip, setting up some very exciting developments for the future of Henry Chebaane and Stephen Baskerville’s series.

As was the case in the first two volumes (each of which compiled the first two chapters, of the first volume, of The Panharmonion Chronicles) the story in this third volume remains quite dense, with an awful lot going on, throughout different times and places in history.

London continues to be very vividly recreated, and there’s the same sense of time and place that’s been carried through the story thus far.

Perhaps because the role of music has become much more integral to the experiments of the villainous organisation which Alex keeps butting heads with, it seemed that there were far more musical references, to bands, songs and lyrics, dotted throughout this particular part of the saga. Some of them felt a bit clunky or out of place, but again, given the role of music in terms of the theories behind the science in the story, it does make sense that they’re in there.

I was less confused in following the narrative this time than I was in the prior volumes; though there’s still a lot going on, and plenty of explanatory and expository dialogue, it all builds well to a conclusion that casts Alex in a completely different light (with some horror-tinged moments along the way, for good measure).

I’ve been really impressed with this series overall, and it’s great to read such a unique story that genuinely doesn’t feel like anything else I’ve encountered before.

If your local comic book store doesn’t stock The Panharmonion Chronicles: Times of London, you can purchase it from the publisher directly here.

Many thanks to Henry Chebaane for sending me digital and physical copies of the full first volume of The Panharmonion Chronicles: Times of London for review purposes.